Support • advice • action

Our services give people the stability, support and challenge they need to enable them to realise their full potential.
Essentially, our services fall into three main categories:

* Helping people to keep a roof over their heads
* Helping people to stay safe
* Helping people to be heard

housing-services

Last year
we assisted594 people
that were released
from prison to find
suitable and
sustainable
accommodation

Housing Services

ACT has been operating for over 40 years. Based in Suffolk, we started as a group of like-minded individuals who thought there must be something more that could be done to help offenders upon their release from prison. We provided supported housing and helped them back into education and employment. We now offer a range of different services to help people keep a roof over their heads. Take a look at the various schemes that we operate throughout Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex.

Made 48 child and 23 vulnerable adult
Safeguarding referrals to Social Services and
followed up to ensure they were being actioned.

Community Safety

We offer a range of different services to help people to feel safe:
* Domestic Abuse Outreach Service – from crisis work through to drop-in advice sessions and specialist male victim support.
* Drug and Alcohol Outreach Recovery Service – we work with those most vulnerable in Ipswich and the west of Suffolk who have complex needs, including substance misuse and housing issues

In the last year we managed £1.9m debt on behalf of 697 service users and provided 41 young people with an Independent Visitor

Advice, Guidance & Advocacy

We offer a range of services to help people to be heard:
* Money, Welfare and Debt services – including Money Mentors to help manage finances in the long term.
* Employment Services – support to get people employment-ready and liaising with training providers.
* Advocacy and Independent Visiting – we provide Independent Visitors to Children in Care and Advocates to those who need to to be heard.
*Appropriate Adult Service - for those young people or vulnerable adults who need support whilst in custody.